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Silverlight a dead language?
is Silverlight a dead language? now that all browsers a failing to support it. but I wonder why? I quite enjoyed the framework what's your thoughts?
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From an user's point of view, I hated websites that needed to install this plugin. I think Microsoft wanted to compete with Flash, but it didn't work out. Flash had the popularity and now HTML5 is taking this place
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Old question, updated answer:
Microsoft Silverlight [reached] the end of support on October 12, 2021.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/silverlight-end-of-support-0a3be3c7-bead-e203-2dfd-74f0a64f1788